back to books Re: doublets / langue / traffic

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Geoff:
> > Goddlefrood, Basil Brush still lives!! He is alive and well on BBC
> children's TV.
> 
> 
> Carol responds:
> I confused you with my reference to Tom Swifties. Now I'm the one
> who's left in the dark. Basil Brush?
> 
> Carol, still amazed by all the differences between our supposedly
> shared cultures

Geoff:
Basil Brush is a large hand puppet of a fox - hence the surname who, 
as Goodlefrood pointed out, has been around for very many years 
and is very well known to all ages in the UK.

Take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brush